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our first home was in detroit. our oldest children were born in detroit. i have seen and lived and held its good and its bad, and there are lots of both. and you have no doubt heard lots about the bad, but you haven't heard, i'm sure of it the love story. there are lots of us who love detroit bruises and all, and today there's are signs of life green shoots rising up a phoenix rising from the ashes. joining me now from detroit is mark binelli, author of a terrific new book "detroit city is the place to be." mark, thank you so much for joining us inside "the war room." >> thanks so much for having me. >> jennifer: you bet. i thoroughly enjoyed for those of you who aren't so familiar with detroit, let me start with the obvious, how has the auto industry's come back played a role in the city's rebirth? >> that's where the book started. it was originally a story for the rolling stone, which i went back to cover the auto industry in 2009 which as you know was a very dire time. the city had become sort of the poster child of the recession, and really for three d
our first home was in detroit. our oldest children were born in detroit. i have seen and lived and held its good and its bad, and there are lots of both. and you have no doubt heard lots about the bad, but you haven't heard, i'm sure of it the love story. there are lots of us who love detroit bruises and all, and today there's are signs of life green shoots rising up a phoenix rising from the ashes. joining me now from detroit is mark binelli, author of a terrific new book "detroit city is...
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in detroit, for example, there are 3,400 i.t. jobs opening in the detroit metro region. the challenge is that we haven't done enough in terms of re-- the work force, in terms of transsuggestionings -- transitioning from one career path to another. i know there are interesting programs underway to be scaled. the wayne community program has they bucket in instructors from around the world and trained people to move to the i.t. career track, and taiment it was done in a 16-week period and 73 people graduate the program and 27 of them have jobbed as a result of that. so we need to figure out from an education speftd how do we become better at retooling the work force domestically as we try to remain competitive globally when it comes to the immigration policy. >> four face -- ford faces a big challenge. you had to a core group of manufacturing as well as overseas. how do you make that balance what are the things that are make the united states a better place for you to locate things versus outside of the united states very specifically. >> a great question. build up of -- we
in detroit, for example, there are 3,400 i.t. jobs opening in the detroit metro region. the challenge is that we haven't done enough in terms of re-- the work force, in terms of transsuggestionings -- transitioning from one career path to another. i know there are interesting programs underway to be scaled. the wayne community program has they bucket in instructors from around the world and trained people to move to the i.t. career track, and taiment it was done in a 16-week period and 73...
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the mighty american league detroit tigers. you ready? the detroit tigers -- they are? audience: out of here! >> you never disappoint. here is my partner mike. >> well, we have become an organization of expertation. there's expectation when you win a championship in 2010 and there is expectation when you get in that ballpark everyday and it's over flowing with your love and affection and there is purity in the formula that this organization goes about trying to meet those standards of excellence. it starts with the fans of historians that we call investors that kept us here in san francisco and goes to the front office comprised of men and women dedicating their lives to this team and goes to baseball operations and the fierce -- the fierce, the ferocious drive of brian saibian and his staff and the most storied manager in san francisco giants history and his teachers and coaches and on to the training and medical staff, but inevitably it will always draw right on the backs of the men who have numbers on their backs. it's up to them to forge together a chemistry that al
the mighty american league detroit tigers. you ready? the detroit tigers -- they are? audience: out of here! >> you never disappoint. here is my partner mike. >> well, we have become an organization of expertation. there's expectation when you win a championship in 2010 and there is expectation when you get in that ballpark everyday and it's over flowing with your love and affection and there is purity in the formula that this organization goes about trying to meet those standards...
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. >> next up on tonight's cbs evening news, can this man find success as a farmer, in detroit? quijanoz,. >> reid: officials in springfield, massachusetts say more than 40 buildings were damaged by a natural gas explosion last night. the explosion destroyed a downtown strip club and damaged more than 100 residential units, 18 people suffered injury, none of them life threatening. >> detroit has lost a quarter of its population over the last decade, creating a landscape lit erred by abandoned homes and vacant last as elaine quijano tells us, one local businessman has an unconventional plan for turning things around. >> in what used to be a booming metropolis, john hance wanted to show us this meadow. >> this doesn't feel like detroit. >> no, it doesn't feel like a major city. >> this overgrown vacant lot in the city of detroit was once the site of a proposed supermarket, it was never built. >> this used to be the street. >> now hans an entrepreneur has a new idea for this land, he wants to build a farm. >> my belief is that the farm is a way to implement the quality of life impr
. >> next up on tonight's cbs evening news, can this man find success as a farmer, in detroit? quijanoz,. >> reid: officials in springfield, massachusetts say more than 40 buildings were damaged by a natural gas explosion last night. the explosion destroyed a downtown strip club and damaged more than 100 residential units, 18 people suffered injury, none of them life threatening. >> detroit has lost a quarter of its population over the last decade, creating a landscape lit...
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beat two excellent teams to win the national league and go on to detroit and unfortunately with detroit with all due respect they didn't know what they were in for. [cheers and applause] you fans, this city, this organization, this team wants all of us, or tries to make all of us better men, better people, better husbands, better friends. larry alluded to it the life lessons watching these guys perform everyday and we have a phrase for it "feeding the beast". this game is a rugged game and like life you need to put a lot into it and they became teammates and competed like nobody has seen. i am humbled to be part of this. i am so happy for all our family and friends and this is why we do this, and you folks will be etched in time and in history as one of the greatest teams not only in san francisco history but in baseball. [cheers and applause] . you earned it and you couldn't have done it without a hall of fame manager and like you guys great things happen to great people. that's what happened to this team. as good as baseball players they are and as big as their accomplishments are the
beat two excellent teams to win the national league and go on to detroit and unfortunately with detroit with all due respect they didn't know what they were in for. [cheers and applause] you fans, this city, this organization, this team wants all of us, or tries to make all of us better men, better people, better husbands, better friends. larry alluded to it the life lessons watching these guys perform everyday and we have a phrase for it "feeding the beast". this game is a rugged...
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and when i was a kid the detroit news was still in print and we used to get the detroit news in the detroit free press the free press was the business paper it had a business section they always editorialized for the republicans the detroit news was the labor paper it had a labor section didn't have a business section and they always editorialized in favor the democrats the days when every town in america had at least one newspaper that had a labor section and are gone in days when when you know. local television and radio even existed are gone and now we've got these large transnational corporations that basically run our media that in many cases themselves are not unionized or if they are or if they are they're only grudgingly and they certainly don't want to be talking about unions on the air do you see any possibility of breaking through that or have times changed so much that there is now is systemic wall to prevent what your grandfather and his brothers did you know are you right i mean i think that the brothers in the u.a.w. at that time had a tremendous spin machine too i me
and when i was a kid the detroit news was still in print and we used to get the detroit news in the detroit free press the free press was the business paper it had a business section they always editorialized for the republicans the detroit news was the labor paper it had a labor section didn't have a business section and they always editorialized in favor the democrats the days when every town in america had at least one newspaper that had a labor section and are gone in days when when you...
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and i don't think a city like detroit with detroit's history would have been completely discarded if it had been 90% white and not 90% black. beyond that, i think it's just, you know, the new talk of the shifting of the debate from cuts, cuts, cuts, to more revenue. and that sort of thing, i think is an important shift for a place like detroit because, you know, it's showing the kind of limits of austerity. >> a friend that works for an i.t. company, they're moving jobs in downtown detroit, because he said, all in, real estate, labor, it's cheaper than mumbai. >> what about if they're moving a high-tech plant in detroit, what are they going to get the workers? >> they're going to have to lure them in with inexpensive real estate. >> so what does that do about the natives of detroit who are still there? what does that do about the fracturing of families in detroit? what does it do about the hundreds, perhaps thousands of teenage mothers who walk the streets in detroit with a double death sentence. theirs at 16 years of age and having a child at 16 or 15 years of age. >> it's true. the
and i don't think a city like detroit with detroit's history would have been completely discarded if it had been 90% white and not 90% black. beyond that, i think it's just, you know, the new talk of the shifting of the debate from cuts, cuts, cuts, to more revenue. and that sort of thing, i think is an important shift for a place like detroit because, you know, it's showing the kind of limits of austerity. >> a friend that works for an i.t. company, they're moving jobs in downtown...
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i worry even the detroit institute of art. right now it is protected but in federal bankruptcy court, who knows. >> one thing that i've read that you have said, you believe your plan could be a better way to protecting some of the city jobs because some people might look at it and go, he's trying to kill the government jobs. that's not your goal. >> well, what would happen to the jobs if they went through federal bankruptcy? the employees would lose everything. the retirees would lose everything. and that's what they're facing. i don't think they realize the problems the city council is directing them into. >> state senator rick jones from michigan, state senator, thank you very much for joining us on cnbc. interesting plan. maybe we'll have to get the governor or mayor on soon to talk about it. thank you. >> thank you. >>> all right. trivia time. what is the number one selling album of all time? here's a hint. it turns 30 today. >>> and then, could you be paying the same tax rate as max headroom and alf? remember them? we'll
i worry even the detroit institute of art. right now it is protected but in federal bankruptcy court, who knows. >> one thing that i've read that you have said, you believe your plan could be a better way to protecting some of the city jobs because some people might look at it and go, he's trying to kill the government jobs. that's not your goal. >> well, what would happen to the jobs if they went through federal bankruptcy? the employees would lose everything. the retirees would...